The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the religious practice of sacrificing animals to please gods and goddesses across the country on the plea that it amounted to cruelty to animals under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. Declining to entertain the PIL by Varaaki, a Chennai-...

The Gujarat government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that sacked state cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, accused of hacking the email of its former law officer, could not ask which agency would undertake an investigation and how it would do so.

The All India Judges Association’s (AIJA) petition in the Supreme Court for a separate pay commission for lower court judge is up for response by the central government, reported Mint . A bench of chief justice HL Dattu and justices Shiva Kirti Singh and Amitava Roy issued notice to the centre, in t...

In a rebuff to the government, the Supreme Court Monday appointed senior counsel KK Venugopal as amicus curiae to assist the court in 2G matters and directed the CBI and Enforcement Directorate to provide him all the documents and briefings in respect of their investigations and status of different ...

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed, without giving any reason, a PIL seeking direction for the FTII students to end their three-month-long agitation against naming Gajendra Chauhan as the institute’s direction and for transparent policies for the appointment. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Da...

Chief Justice of India HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy yesterday (31 August) granted a stay on the Rajasthan high court’s judgment delivered on August 10 criminalising the Jain community’s practice of Santhara – meaning abstinence from food and water by a person, who awaits death – and issued notice to the respondents in the case.

The petition by academic and Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) founder Shamnad Basheer against the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) in the Supreme Court, has been listed on Friday before Justice TS Thakur, after Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu recused himself yesterday. Dattu re...

The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition seeking cancellation of bail of film star Salman Khan who was convicted and sentenced in a hit and run case. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu declined the plea by one of the alleged victims associated with the case and belonging to Mu...

The Supreme Court’s social justice bench comprising justices Madan B Lokur and UU Lalit heard seven cases between 2 and 4.15 p.m on Friday, August 28 but has failed to dispose of a single petition since it was set up in 2014.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the Gauhati High Court order directing a CBI probe against Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki for alleged corruption in awarding state contracts to his family members. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu also issued notice to the Arunac...

The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Central Bureau of Investigation three weeks’ time to take over all the cases relating to the Vyapam scam and complete the appointment of public prosecutors to lead prosecution of its cases before the trial court. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Kurian ...

The central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that political parties were not covered under RTI as they were not public authorities and any attempt to bring them under the transparency law was fraught with dangers of misuse with “malicious intention” of thwarting their “smooth internal wor...

Debate around the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) has often been emotive rather than dispassionate, with the discourse ranging from senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani calling it an “evil absurdity” to attorney general Mukul Rohatgi pointing to judges who habitually turned up late in court as a reason to ditch the existing collegium system to select judges.

In the wake of the bar’s stand-off with the Supreme Court bench, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) of the “committee to oversee implementation of suggestions by SCBA” and a letter by SCBA president Dushyant Dave.

After in August 2013 banning interns from its premises on Mondays and Fridays - miscellaneous days - in order to fight overcrowding, the Supreme Court now plans to ban interns from entering the “high security” zone inside the court for security reasons.

Ex-Medical Council of India (MCI) president Dr Ketan Desai is facing a Supreme Court probe into all manner of allegations into the future of the profession’s regulator.

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the central government on a petition by NGO Common Cause seeking quashing of the appointment of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) KV Chaudhary and Vigilance Commissioner (VC) TM Bhasin as it breached the principle of “institutional integrity”. The no...

PTI and others reported that a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu and justices PC Ghose and Abhay Manohar Sapre has stayed yesterday’s Gujarat high court order serving notice on 27 of its current and former judges over land allotted to them by the state government in 2008. ...

On yesterday’s penultimate day of hearing of Union of India vs V Sriharan @ Murugan, the battle lines were clearly drawn between the Central Government and the State Governments, most of whom are listed as respondents in this case.

The Financial Express and others reported: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Bombay high court’s judgment that upheld the levy of service tax on services provided by lawyers and law firms to business clients with turnover of Rs 10 lakh and more. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu while is...